MALAYSIA KU SAYANG

Salam to all,

2006...I arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) after spending about three months at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Prof Steinberg invited me there to finalize the writing up of my phd thesis. He wrote an email to me : "It is crucial for you now to start writing (my phd thesis) and stop working (on my research project)"...after I emailed to him my latest work...which I was not sure whether it was good enough for a phd value🤔😀...

At first when I arrived at the UNM I had some difficulties in concentrating on my writing as it was the month of Ramadhan...becoz I was missing my family and the Malaysian environment during Ramadhan. But alhamdulillah...everything went well🙂. Prof Steinberg and Dr Wester accepted my work after I presented it to them (some sort like a "mini viva" 😂). Prof Steinberg said : "You have now convinced me you know something that I don't know...". Alhamdulilah...🙂

Now I couldnt wait to go back home (after I finished up my writing and got it approved by Prof Steinberg and Dr Wester)...not only becoz I miss my family but I was also missing the Malaysian environment very much 😔. I made doa to Allah to get me safely back home to Malaysia, my beloved country. Even though the UNM has a very good and caring Muslims community and they were very supportive towards me...like providing me with halal food, invited me to the Islamic Centre of New Mexico  (ICNM) to break the fast together...but it is still not the same as the Malaysian environment...and I miss it very much😔.

When I arrived at the KLIA arrival terminal (my family was there waiting for me), I was very much excited that I kept on jumping...up & down, up & down, and so on😂...until Yaqeen (my daughter) said : "Apa kena dengan mama ni...malu la mama sume org pandang kita". But I just didn't care at all about what people think of me coz...I am now safely back home in Malaysia...MALAYSIA KU SAYANG 😂❤️.

Alhamdulillah...😀 

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SELAMAT HARI KEBANGSAAN !!! 😂

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yuzita

PAKEJ SIMBOLIK PENDIDIKAN

Salam to all,

Sistem Algebra Komputer (SAK) merupakan sebuah perisian komputer yang digunakan untuk penyelesaian matematik daripada masalah yang mudah hinggalah kepada yang kompleks. Ia juga berupaya untuk memvisualisasi sesuatu entiti dengan lebih jelas, memproses ungkapan formula dengan lebih cepat dan tepat, membantu Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) dengan menyediakan pelbagai perwakilan simbolik, numerik, grafik, dsb. 

Contoh SAK ialah Axiom, Maple dan Mathematica.

Penggunaan SAK dalam industri pendidikan merupakan suatu pendekatan yang amat berkesan dan menyeronokkan. SAK juga digunakan dalam pelbagai industri seperti industri kimia, industri robotik, industri automotif dan banyak lagi.

Sebagai contoh : 

2005...saya menghadiri kursus "Programming in Mathematica" di University of Melbourne, Australia. Pada mulanya saya ingatkan yang menghadiri kursus tersebut adalah terdiri daripada pensyarah2 universiti seperti saya...rupa2nya saya seorang sahaja pensyarah universiti😀...dan yang lainnya adalah daripada pelbagai industri.

Ini menunjukkan kepentingan SAK untuk mempertingkatkan mutu sesuatu pekerjaan dalam pelbagai industri seperti menjimatkan masa pengeluaran ("time is money") dan menghasilkan sesuatu produk yang lebih tepat.

Projek yang saya utarakan di sini adalah bertujuan untuk membina suatu pakej simbolik pendidikan menggunakan SAK yang merangkumi dua aspek utama : 

(1) Reka bentuk pembangunan pakej berasaskan konsep pedagogi SAK iaitu : (a) interaktiviti (b) visualisasi (c) eksperimentasi (d) teknik langkah demi langkah (e) kepelbagaian perwakilan dan (f) prinsip kotak putih / kotak hitam.

(2) Menguji kebolehgunaan pakej berasaskan tiga atribut iaitu : (a) keberkesanan (b) kebolehbelajaran (c) kepuasan. 

Setiap atribut diterapkan konsep pedagogi SAK.

Kaedah analisis data :

(a) Ujian korelasi Pearson untuk menguji hipotesis kajian

(b) Ujian-t untuk melihat perbezaan skor ujian setelah menggunakan pakej.

(c)  Analisis regresi berganda untuk melihat kesan ketiga-tiga atribut terhadap skor ujian setelah menggunakan pakej.

Analisis data dilaksana dengan menggunakan perisian SPSS untuk menghasilkan dapatan kajian.

Nota :

Projek seperti dinyatakan di atas telah berjaya dilaksanakan oleh Hazlina Awang Lah pada 2014 dengan tajuk "Pakej Simbolik Pendidikan Fizik (i-phys) Berasaskan Sistem Algebra Komputer" (Tesis Doktor Falsafah, UKM).

Alhamdulillah🙂🤲.

Tahniah Dr Hazlina !!! 🙂❤️

* Sesiapa yang berminat untuk meneruskan pengajian dalam "postgrad studies (Master / phd)" dalam bidang  Komputer Algebra bolehlah menghubungi saya🙂.

Bidang yang ditawarkan : "Computer Algebra in Education or Computer Algebra in Industry (choose your own targeted industry)" 🙂.

⭐Nota penting :

Kalau nak cuba main2 dgn Mathematica...boleh muat turun trial installation dari :

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial/

The trial license is good for 15 days.

Yuzita

MY BELOVED FAMILY ❤️

 Salam to all,

From your left (sitting down) :

- Wan 'Ainul Yaqeen...my eldest daughter

- Wan Zamdan...my husband

- myself

- Wan 'Umar Firdaus...my son

From your right (standing up) :

- Wan 'Adneen Na'im...my second daughter

- Mohamad Ariff...Na'im's husband

This picture was taken during Hari Raya Aidil Fitri 2020 at the Sri Ixora apartment, kajang.

Mama loves you all very much 😘.

InshaAllah...we will be together in the jannah with our beloved prophet Muhammad (saw) and his companons (ra) ❤️🙂. Ameen 🤲...

From your left : Na'im, Yaqeen, 'Umar and  Ninie

Yuzita

IXORA

Salam to all, 

I am now living at the Sri Ixora apartment, Kajang, Selangor. The apartment is only about 15 minutes away from UKM. I bought it in 2008. The selling agent kept on persuading me without failure to buy a unit of this Sri Ixora apartment...☺ so to challenge her i said : "if you can find me a unit on the highest floor and at the very end with two parking spaces (side by side) on the ground floor and also with nothing to obstruct the view...inshaAllah I will buy it ". 

A few days later she came to see me at UKM to tell me the "good" news that she found the unit that met my requirements. The potential buyer's application bank loan for the prescribed unit was rejected...and so I had no choice but to buy it (a promise is a promise😀). 

But why do I need to buy it ? I already own a house in Kuala Lumpur...🤔

2009...I came back to Malaysia from Montreal, Canada after presenting a paper at the conference  on  the Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA) 2009 there. I felt sick for a few days after returning from Montreal. I thought maybe becoz of the long trip to Montreal 🤔? I went to HUKM for a medical check up and I was referred to a neuro surgeon, Mr. Toh who later diagnosed me with a brain tumor (as big as an egg (grade A)). Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun...

2010...I was involved with a terrible car accident (alhamdulillah🤲...I was alone in the car). I was in a coma state for six days. My spleen was badly injured and Mr Zamzuri (HKL specialist) had no choice but to remove it and...also half of my intestine was removed. 

After the accident I moved to Sri Ixora apartment becoz it was nearer to UKM and easier for me to go to work. I needed to get myself occupied with other stuff than kept thinking of my illness. A place where I needed time to think and munajat to Allah...asking for His guidance...that was what I found in my Ixora apt...❤️ 

2018...I had an operation at HUKM to remove my brain tumor and alhamdulillah...it was successful.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr Toh & team for a very well done job. I spent fourteen hours in the operating theatre (OT): 8am - 10pm...so you can lmagine how tired Mr Toh & team must have been to remove the tumor 🤔... Thank you very much...from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciate it ❤️

Now...I am still in the "recovery" period but alhamdulillah...I can do most of the job that I used to do 🙂.

Yuzita

*** Picture above :

Ixora flower...MashaAllah !!! So beautiful...😯❤️

AMALAN PALING BAIK...

Salam to all, 

Surah Al Mulk ayat 2: "...kerana Dia (Allah) yang akan menguji kamu, manakah di antara kamu yang amalannya paling baik. Dan Dia adalah Maha Perkasa dan Maha Pengampun". 

Menurut Prof Dr. Hamka di dalam Tafsir Al Azhar (juzu' 29-30) amalan yang paling baik, biar pun sedikit, bukan amalan yang banyak tetapi tidak bermutu. Maka jangan beramal hanya kerana mengharapkan banyak bilangan (kuantiti) tetapi beramallah yang bermutu tinggi walaupun sedikit (kualiti). 

Sifat Allah Al 'Aziz (Yang Maha Perkasa) dijelaskan bahawa Allah tidak boleh dipermain-mainkan. Di hadapan Allah tidak boleh beramal dengan separuh hati dan ragu-ragu. Melainkan kerjakan dengan bersungguh-sungguh, hati-hati dan penuh disiplin. Kerana kalau tidak demikian, Allah akan murka... 

Tetapi Allah juga mempunyai sifat Al Ghafur (Maha Pengampun) atas hambaNya yang tidak sengaja melanggar hukumNya dan selalu berniat berbuat amalan yang lebih baik tetapi tidak mempunyai tenaga yang cukup untuk mencapai yang lebih baik itu. Pada waktu itulah Allah menunjukkan belas kasihanNya kerana Allah tidak memberati seseorang kecuali sekadar kesanggupan yang ada padanya (Al Baqarah: 286)❤️. 

Di dalam surah Al Kahfi ayat 46: "Harta dan anak2 adalah perhiasan kehidupan dunia tetapi amalan yang kekal (istiqamah) lagi soleh adalah lebih baik pahalanya di sisi Tuhanmu serta lebih baik untuk menjadi harapan (bila bertemu dengan Allah kelak).

Oleh itu amalan yang paling baik hendaklah memenuhi syarat: 1. Berkualiti (bermutu tinggi) biarpun sedikit.  2. Istiqamah (consistent).

Jangan jadi seperti peribahasa Melayu: "Hangat2 tahi ayam". Sebagai contoh: Solat tahajjud 14 rakaat selama sebulan...lepas tu xbuat dah...😀.

Ingat...Allah xakan sama sekali jemu melainkan kita yang jemu 🙂❤️.

Yuzita

JUSTIFIABLE PHOBIA

Salam to all,

Corona virus has a great impact on my life. I became more cautious of everything surrounding me...make sure everyone is at least 1m apart from me, wash or sanitize my hand regularly, looking suspiciously at everyone ("dia ni pembawa corona ke tak? 🤔") eventhough that person looks fine (hehe!), etc.

Why? Becoz I lost my spleen ten years ago in a tragic car accident. I was in a coma state for six days. The HKL specialist, Mr Zamzuri tried his best to save my spleen but failed...innalilla wainna ilaihi rajiun. Spleen is very important becoz it helps your body to produce antibodies to fight diseases like covid19.

As a result I feel reluctant to get out from my house unless for crucial stuff like going to HUKM to get my medicine. Also I don't want to be a burden to the doctors and nurses (i.e., frontliners) if I got sick with covid19...such as the nurses need to wear ppe to feed me or give me medicine. They have had enough patients to take care of...😀

So I have no choice but to apply for "work from home (WFH)"  from UKM. In order for UKM to approve my WFH I need to fill an application form and attach to it a letter from a medical officer (doctor) working in a government hospital. I decided to go to Pusat Kesihatan Universiti (PKU) UKM (after consulting my immediate superior, Associate Prof Dr Jamaiah) to get the letter.

The doctor at PKU UKM, Dr. Arif Nasar Sulaiman was very nice to me when I told him about my "phobia" problem. He said it is normal as I don't have spleen anymore and he called it "justifiable phobia". But I just need to not over do the feeling of phobianess...hehe!.

I also told him about my right leg :
I couldn't walk properly so thats why I use crutches. I had an operation at HUKM in 2018 to take out my brain tumor. Maybe this is the consequences of the operation...only Allah swt knows the reason why becoz the doctors at HUKM didn't know 🤔??? They did mri and ct-scan on my right leg and found nothing. Anyway this is not such a big issue becoz I can still be able to walk...alhamdulillah🙂.

My biggest issue is how to overcome my phobia of corona virus? My friend (*ustazah) suggested that I read after every solat **Hizbi Nawawi and alhamdulillah it works.

So what I need to do now is to istiqamah reading the Hizbi Nawawi and WFH to fight this corona virus until the vaccin is found...inshaAllah❤️😀



*Ustazah adalah anak murid kepada Tuan Guru Dato' Hj. Ismail bin Kamus (Pengasas dan penasihat, Persatuan Perubatan Islam DARUSSALAM Malaysia)

**Hizbi Nawawi ialah himpunan doa dan zikir yang dikumpulkan oleh Imam Nawawi (ra) sendiri.



Yuzita

FALLING IN LOVE...❤️ (PART 4)

Salam to all,

Most of you all must be thinking that I have fallen in love with computer algebra right? Well...only partially true. I think I love more the people who were involved in propagating the knowledge of computer algebra to the world. I could see the passion shown in their faces when presenting the outcome of their researh in conferences and seminars.

Most of the time I felt like an outsider...but they didnt treat me like one. They were friendly and helpful to me especially when they knew that I am all alone in this field in Malaysia (masih lagi ke?...he2). One of them (I forgot his name...we met at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia) taught me how to do programming in Mathematica. Dr Bernard Kutzler (Austrian) came to IIUM to give me a book on Computer Algebra System (CAS )...he came to Malaysia on a business trip and dropped by to see me at the Kuliyyah of Engineering, IIUM. Prof Stanley Steinberg and Dr Michael Wester helped me in completing my phd thesis without expecting anything in return and many more.

I love them all for their kindness and willingness to share their knowledge of computer algebra with me..."Miss Nobody"...he2. Thank you very much...from the bottom of my heart.

Allah ta'ala opened their heart to help me when I was in need...thank you Allah❤️.

Yuzita

***** TAMAT *****

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